1917 True Story How Much Of The Movie Was Real
Set in the very real global conflict World War I, some of the events depicted in 1917 were told to director Sam Mendes through childhood stories by his grandfather, Lance Corporal Alfred H. Mendes — but how much of the film is true, and how much of it was made up or exaggerated for the big screen? Mendes’ movie, the British auteur’s first since 2015’s Spectre, is dedicated to the memory of his grandfather, a message runner for the country’s army in WWI....